Quotes About Faith

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune

His civilization had flourished for thousands of years in the harsh and unforgiving land of Mesopotamia before anyone had ever heard of a place called America. And it would survive long after the great American experiment receded into history. Of this, Saladin was certain. All great empires eventually collapsed. Only Islam was forever. The

We have to change, Rafiq." "Islam is the answer!" "Islam is the problem, habibi.

We mourn the dead and keep them in our hearts. But we live our lives.

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, taught us there were Five Pillars of Islam. We believe there is a sixth. Jihad is not a choice. It is an obligation. The al-Saud understand this. Once again, they are willing to look the other way, provided the brothers don't make trouble inside the Kingdom. That was Bin Laden's biggest

weighty ashlars of the Western Wall.

placed on the table next

ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. "And may you grant us the strength and determination to complete our

Wasn't it Moses who dispatched a team of agents to spy out the land of Canaan?

The cruelty of the desert had influenced the faith.

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

Don't look back. You are never completely alone.

Shema, Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad!

G. K. Chesterton, an English journalist who wrote extensively about his Christian beliefs in the early part of the twentieth

If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven't, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.

With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can—then believe a little more.

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

Salvation is to accept one's place in the story of faith whose theme is shalom.

Where there is doubt, faith has its reason for being. Clearly faith is not needed where certainty supposedly exists, but only in situations where doubt is possible, even present.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the idea of God, not in God Himself. MIGUEL D

Dreams are what keep a man going.

You're not necessarily supposed to believe it…You're just supposed to believe in it.

Mine was a crazy dream- but what dream isn't crazy? Can a dream be a dream and be sensible? No. A sensible dream is a plan. Men like us dream, and our dreams come true because we believe in ourselves.